Re: $500 budget - hmmm...

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's true too.
Everyone had one account once.



"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Mar 23, 8:18?pm, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| wrote:
| > Build yourself an Excel spreadsheet with your most commonly used parts
and
| > prices. Takes me less than an hour to design, spec and price out a
proposal.
| > I still have to type it up, but I'm working on that aspect.
| >
| > Hey...there's still a niche for the small guys. My average residential
jobs
| > have been running between 2500-6000 lately...so don't underbid and put a
| > profit on everything. So I don't get every job I bid these days, but
what
| > the heck...if there's profit in it I don't have to rush and can take my
time
| > to design and install it with pride. Don't compete with the
idiots...they
| > eventually disappear from the phone book.
| >
|
| Just my take on the subject.....
|
| Obvioulsy it's a lot easier to pass up an account when you've reached
| a certain point when the revenue is coming in along with the
| referrals. When you're first starting out you're a little more
| pressured to take what comes ..... when it comes.
|
| Also, as I've mentioned before, I use my pricing to govern how much
| work I do. But again, this is a luxury provided by recurring revenue.
|
| Until you reach that point where your RMR can support you and the
| overhead, it's a struggle.
|